In discussion about the winged flyback strategy for reusable first stages, it's been remarked that when what you want to do is climb out of the atmosphere, a...

Rand Simberg wrote: On Thu, 12 Apr 2007 02:13:24 GMT, in a place far, far away, robert casey made the phosphor on my monitor glow...

I am sure Burt has thought quite hard about what would be required to reach Mars (and possibly return). Has he released any details to the public about what he...

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History's Worst Presidential Candidate I'd say the current President GWB would be high on the list We don't try to run your country. Stop trying to...

http://www.space.com/news/hubble_budget_050121.html "WASHINGTON – The White House has eliminated funding for a mission to service the Hubble Space Telescope...

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jonathan wrote: In an rare rebuttal of Griffin's use of this biased poll, Gallup issued this video reponse showing the true level of public support for...

The Earth As a Planet. Science has shown that it is highly efficient at doing things when enough people put enough resources behind the right sorts...

The art work coming out of NASA and other sources seems to imply an Apollo approach, namely, land your capsule on the moon, explore, launch most of your...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/11/30/nasa_aliens_revelations/ Even if only bacteria were found on Mars that would be a shocking revelation since it would...

In article , "Sound of Trumpet" wrote: The simple fact is, we are never...

It doesn't fit in with NASA's new paradigm of better, smaller, faster. That's the single most important thing that Bush has thrown away with this new...

http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/forums/thread-view.asp?tid=8071&start=1 http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/forums/thread-view.asp?tid=7647&posts=367&start=1 Be...

Barack Obama wants to slash funding for the NASA program to develop a replacement for the space shuttle that will not only fly to low Earth orbit, but also...

So what will it be. Do we build new Saturn Vs, Magnum rockets, Ares launchers, or Shuttle Zs?

I've heard that the first Unmanned flight of the Project Constellation/CEV might occur as earily as '07 or '08, but it won't become operational til '14. Are...

How high will sea levels rise? As much as 80 meters....gulp! USGS Sea Level and Climate http://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/fs2-00/

Look at this page, particularly the 2 bottom-most links: http://www.dtic.mil/matris/sbir/sttr04/sttr3.html They mention newly-characterized stable salt...

Australia did not participate militarily in Operation Iraqi Freedom. Report back your results, please. You know, for the last 6 months or so I have...